Safety Ring Switch
Front Plate Installation GuideSafety Ring Switch Front Plate Installation Guide
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Issued by:
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Luminex LCE,
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B-3910,Belgium.
Documentation last reviewed March 26, 2008, by Bart Swinnen.
Printed in the EU.

Table of Contents
Warranty information.......................................................................5
Limited warranty..........................................................................5
Returning under warranty..............................................................5
Freight........................................................................................5
General..........................................................................................6
Packaging....................................................................................6
Overview.....................................................................................6
Installation..................................................................................6
On both switch..........................................................................6

Warranty information
Limited warranty
Unless otherwise stated, your product is covered by a one (1) year partsand labor limited warranty. It is the owner’s responsibility to furnish
receipts or invoices for verification of purchase, date, and dealer or
distributor. If purchase date cannot be provided, date of manufacture will
be used to determine warranty period.

Returning under warranty
Any Product unit or parts returned to Luminex LCE must be packaged in asuitable manner to ensure the protection of such Product unit or parts,and such package shall be clearly and prominently marked to indicate thatthe package contains returned Product units or parts. Accompany all
returned Product units or parts with a written explanation of the alleged
problem or malfunction.

FreightAll shipping will be paid by the purchaser. Items under warranty shall havereturn shipping paid by the manufacturer only in the European Union.
Under no circumstances will freight collect shipments be accepted. Prepaid
shipping does not include rush expediting such as air freight. Air freight
can be sent customer collect in the European Union.
Warranty is void if the product is misused, damaged, modified in any way,or for unauthorized repairs or parts.

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GeneralPackaging•

1 x SRS Front Plate with 2 Neutrik OpticalCon connectors•

1 x SC-LC optical adaptersOverview
The Safety Ring Switch front plate is the ideal accessory that fits with yourSafety Ring Switch. It allows you to use Robust Neutrik Opticalcon fiber formobile use (tour, event, TV studio ...), where regular IT optical fiber could
not be used.

Installation●On both switch

Connect you first Safety Ring Switch to the first front plate using the SC toLC adapters (Illustration 1).

Illustration 1: SC to LC adaptor

SC connectors have to be connected at the rear of the Safety Ring Switch
on ports 8 and 9. LC connectors have to be connected on the rear ofOpticalcon connector (rear of the 1U panel). Some adapters comes withcolors or letters on each port. Please respect the color scheme or letter
scheme on ports 8 & 9 (Illustration 2). Wiring scheme on port 8 is thesame as port 9.

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Illustration 2: both switch connection

Please pay attention to insert both SC or LC connectors in the rightposition. Refer to the connectors catch for correct insertion.
Repeat the same procedure for Safety Ring Switch N°2.
Using this wiring scheme allows you to always have Safety Ring Switch
cabled in the same manner. Like this, it's easy to link two switches for asingle redundant link between F.O.H and stage, or to create a huge ring ofseveral switches.
In order to have the first switch transmit port (Tx) connected to thesecond switch receive port, you can connect port 8 on the first switch toport 8 or 9 on the second switch; Neutrik Opticalcon fiber is a crossovercable, so each Tx will be connected to a Rx port. However, and toestablish a connection standard, Luminex recommend to always use thesame scheme, port 8 to port 9 for instance. Illustration 3 shows the way
Tx has to be connected to Rx, and vice versa. Repeat the same wiring
procedure to each switch included in your ring.

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Illustration 3: global connection scheme

The switch automatically create the active and backup link.
In order to obtain a successful connection between switches, please checkthe 3 following points :●Port 8 Link ACT/LINK LED on each switch has to be on●

Port 9 Link ACT/LINK LED on each switch has to be on●Ring LED on each switch has to be on, not flashing.

If one of these point is not respected, please check again your connection
between switches and front plate.
Please remind the link between switches can run only on one fiber, but
you won't take benefit of the Safety Ring Switch redundancy system.
Neutrik Optical Fiber is a crossover fiber. Please remind this if you wish touse generic fiber leads instead of the Neutrik one, you may have toreverse the connection.

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